IBM made headlines this past spring when it decided to corral the tens of thousands of employees the company allowed to work from home and brought them back into the office. More are following the tech giant's lead, noting that collaboration is among the factors that suffer when workers aren't physically near one another,
Bloomberg reports
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A Society of Human Resource Management survey found that 77 percent of organizations don't let people work from home on a full-time basis. Still, 60 percent allow some form of telecommuting.

Among employees, the home office option remains a popular perk. Bloomberg cites a 2013 Pew survey showing parents ranked it "extremely important."

Employers have touted telecommuting as an alternative that helps limit real estate and operational costs.